Comments on: Getting Started with Amazon EC2

By: etbe

etbe — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:09:36 +0000

Charles: Where do you think I should store a SVN repository for this? I have no plans to run my own and I’m not aware of a public server that’s suitable.

I don’t have any strong feelings about this issue, so my lack of spare time is probably going to be the deciding factor. If someone else checked them in to a SVN repository and told me how to access it then I would probably send updates there.

By: Charles Plessy

Charles Plessy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:13:07 +0000

Thanks for the source packages. How about putting them in a SVN repository with mergeWithUpstream enabled?

By: etbe

etbe — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:27:25 +0000

Adrian: There doesn’t seem to be a good way to ask them. Even finding software and documentation is hard enough.

Also sometimes pointing something out in a public way gets a better response.

As for 3ware, traditionally they have been very responsive to questions asked on the linux-ide-arrays@lists.math.uh.edu mailing list. I’ll ask a question about this on that list.

By: Adrian Bridgett

Adrian Bridgett — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:14:25 +0000

Whilst lack of a clear license is very bad, have you actually _asked_ them? Of course that very much depends on if you can find a suitable email address…

FWIW 3ware’s tools have a dreadful license – you can’t “distribute” it or “transfer electronically” (paraphrased). Basically you can’t even download it from their website AFAICT. Yes I _did_ send them an email asking for clarification. No I didn’t receive any response at all :-(